The Web of Science Group is investing in ResearcherID to make
the experience of managing and evaluating researcher profiles
more seamless, open, and connected for researchers,
administrators, and evaluators.

Profiles

Researchers around the world use ResearcherID track their
publications and ensure their publications are correctly
attributed to them across Web of Science collections. To make
this even easier, ResearcherID profiles moved to Publons on 15
April 2019. This move allows researchers to:

• add publications, track citations, and ensure their
  publication records are correctly attributed across Web of
  Science (all for free and without requirement for
  institutional entitlements)
• build a more complete profile of their research impact by
  automatically tracking their peer review and editorial
  history right alongside their publications.

Identifiers

Web of Science ResearcherIDs are used by institutions and
funders as a persistent identifier to track researcher outputs
and to update publication records in Web of Science, ensuring
correct author attribution and disambiguation. To make this
even easier we are bringing the identifier closer to the Web
of Science Group’s suite of products. Going forward, we’ll be
using the Web of Science ResearcherID to keep publications
synchronised across the Web of Science Group suite of
solutions: Web of Science, InCites, Converis, Publons and more.

Administration

We are in the early stages of development of a suite of tools
to make it simple to administer records on behalf of researchers
and to access the resulting data. Potential offerings include:

• A batch upload service, allowing administrators to submit
  publication data that will populate Publons profiles, update
  distinct Web of Science Author Records, and to assign
  Web of Science ResearcherIDs (and links to Publons profiles)
  to records across Web of Science collections.
• A researcher-centric API, allowing institutions to access rich
  information within researcher profiles for the purposes of
  populating internal systems.
• Administrative Publons accounts, allowing administrators to
  aggregate outputs from multiple researchers in a single
  view. These accounts are hidden to ensure we are able to
  maintain the high data quality standards of Web of Science

If you are interested in testing any of these services,
email data@publons.com.
Please note, all of these services are in the early phases of
development and our approach may change as we learn more about
what you need.

If you were an existing user of the ResearcherID suite of
admin tools and wish to continue using them, contact us at
data@publons.com. Please
include information about your existing account.